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title: This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to s… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright colors. Who acts: bag, huge stiff envelope. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 10

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This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright colors.

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**Who acts:** bag, huge stiff envelope · **What happens:** be, see, paint · **To what, where:** bag

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bag, huge stiff envelope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:7:10
# text = This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright colors.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this bag |  |  |  |  | like a huge stiff envelope | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this bag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | this bag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **paint** | past · passive | a huge stiff envelope *not said here* | bag |  |  |  | with many bright colors; over *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with color=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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